Posts Tagged ‘first commandment’

Pursue Love (Burning Hearts Gathering 1/9/13)

Posted by Tim

As a new year begins, here’s a simple call back to the one thing God calls us to give our lives to: pursue love. God promises that if we value what He values and pursue His priorities, He will take care of the rest, and God’s central motivation and drive in all that He does is love.

This is a practical look at what it really means to give your life to the pursuit of love, given that God is love and love is of God: how to pursue the width and length and height and depth of the love of God – not just how we conceive of love in our brokenness, but the fullness of love as God defines it, flowing from His heart abounding in love, and not stopping until we’ve given all our heart, soul, mind and strength.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 1/9/13 – Pursue Love (21.8MB 76min)

Notes

Simple Faith – The Upper Room Discourse (Burning Hearts Gathering 8/15/12)

Posted by Tim

We’re starting a new series on: Simple Faith

In the Upper Room Discourse in John 13-17 Jesus teaches on what life looks like under the New Covenant. It’s beautiful in its simplicity, its loving nature and its accessibility. The Father, in love, has prepared for us a light yoke that is not out of our reach but belongs to little children.

We need to hear again and again Jesus’ message on the simplicity of believing and abiding, because our chief battleground in pursuing God is remaining in the simplicity of faith in and love for the Person of Christ, and not getting distracted and confused by adding to the simplicity of devotion that is in Christ.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 8/15/12 – The Upper Room Discourse (18.6MB 65min)

Notes

Loving God 7: With All Your Strength (pt2)

Posted by Tim

Session 7 on Loving God: Loving God With All Your Strength – The Sermon on the Mount Lifestyle

In the application part of this session, we’re looking at the lifestyle and practices that Jesus describes in the Sermon on the Mount and how they lead us to a life of sacrificial love and dependence upon God. Jesus lays out five areas of surrender where God longs for us to give and receive love.

Loving God – Session 7 – 11/14/10 – Loving God With All Your Strength (practicals) (22.5MB 66min)

Notes

Loving God 7: With All Your Strength (pt1)

Posted by Tim

Session 7 on Loving God: Loving God With All Your Strength – Pursuing Greatness in God’s Eyes

In this final session – Loving God with all our strength – we’re looking at the Sermon on the Mount and the call that Jesus gives to live before the eyes of our Father in heaven and to pursue greatness in His eyes. The Sermon on the Mount is our guide in how to be free of the hold of this world by shifting our reward, our focus and our confidence to our Father in heaven.

Loving God – Session 7 – 11/14/10 – Loving God With All Your Strength (teaching) (18.9MB 55min)

Notes

Loving God 6: With All Your Heart (pt2)

Posted by Tim

Session 6 on Loving God: Loving God With All Your Heart – Keeping the Fire: A Life of Prayer

The practical means through which God intends to transform our hearts into oneness with His is a life of prayer. As we respond to what we see in Jesus, God does a deep work in our hearts. The disciplines of a life of prayer are what enable us to keep a consistent fire on our hearts until they are fully consumed in love.

Loving God – Session 6 – 11/7/10 – Loving God With All Your Heart (practicals) (17.7MB 52min)

Notes

Handout – Apostolic Prayers

Handout – Meditation

Loving God 6: With All Your Heart (pt1)

Posted by Tim

Session 6 on Loving God: Loving God With All Your Heart – Becoming Those After God’s Own Heart

As we look at loving God with all our heart, we are looking at God’s desire and promise to unite His body with His own heart and love. The love we encounter as we behold Christ is not just there for us to worship or to emulate, it is there to produce in us a persistent cry for our hearts to be filled with that love by the indwelling Spirit.

Loving God – Session 6 – 11/7/10 – Loving God With All Your Heart (teaching) (19.3MB 56min)

Notes

Loving God 5: With All Your Mind (pt2)

Posted by Tim

Session 5 on Loving God: Loving God With All Your Mind – Beholding the Face of Christ

In the workshop part of this session, we’re looking at how to grow in the knowledge of God through meditating on the Scriptures and specifically on the accounts of the life of Jesus in the Gospels. In seeing Jesus as He walks the earth, we have the unthinkable gift of  being able to look God in the face.

Loving God – Session 5 – 10/31/10 – Loving God With All Your Mind (practicals) (21.2MB 62min)

Notes

Handout: Meditation on Christ

Loving God 4: With All Your Soul (pt2)

Posted by Tim

Session 4 on Loving God: Loving God With All Your Soul – Practical Ways to Re-shape Our Identity

In this second part, the focus is on practical things to do in daily life that begin to establish identity in us. From the start of our day to the end, over the longhaul and moment to moment, what does it look like to walk rooted in the identity that we are God’s?

Loving God – Session 4 – 10/17/10 – Loving God With All Your Soul (practicals) (20.3MB 59min)

Notes

Handout: Prayers For Fullness

^ back to top ^